Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-01-15
NEWS NOTES.



constant worry to-the officials TO have charge
OF IT. While going up the almost perpen-
alcular and narrow stairway OF the arm TO
the balcony about the torch, Mai. Heap says
he felt the arm tTemble under his weight,
and he fears that it will break OF some day
and fall into the bay. The copper, Mai.
Heap says viii cOrrods rapidly, and the
statue will soon have 70 be repaired Gen.
Stone, who has had charge of the erection Of
the statue, Indignantly denies the justice of
the criticism. He says; at was tested BY
the best French engineers before It was sent
over here. Our en- gln6era QuadFuDled the
strength that the French engineers regarded
as enough 70 make the tOrch-hrm last a cen
ury or 80 Gen. Stone thought that the
talk that the statue would be weakened by
coErOs1On OF the copper was neither sc1en-
the nor intelligent The plates he said, are
of hammered copper, and will last about q
thousand years
Mitteneague station, Macs, was the ssene
OF Fri ghtful railroad accident. The Motor
train from Albany approached the depot an
hour Denlnd ttlae Alu Eu--nipg az the rate OF
about thirty-hv miles an hour When with
IN a few rods OF the depot, i've OF the SIX
cars in the train were thrown from the track
BY broken wheel under the baggage Car.
The train consisted of the engine, an express
car, baggage car, smoking car, day coach
and two sleeping care. The engine aud eX-
pr6as car kept on the main track. but the
be ggage car was thrown against the engine
of the local west bound freight train, which
had Just pulled IN and was standing on the
west bound track The freight engine 3
thrown on its side and completely wrecked.
The baggage car, smoking car and day
coach immediat, Is took IRE and were con-
sum6d. When the cars could be searched,
the charred remains of man burned 10 a
crisp was found, the only means Of indenti-
nSahon being the letters ~. So on his cap.
A great many persons we're seriously Injured.
Secretary Lamar was married on Wednes-
day, Jan. 4th, at the residence OF the bride,
IN Macon, Georgia, by Rev. William Park
OF 5andersville, 70 Mrs. William II. Holt, Of
Macon. Those present at the marriage
were Captain r. l.. Park, w. II. Virgin,
Colonel j. F. Jones and wives, daughters OF
bride, DR.. r. NJ. Patterson and wife and
Major W. H. Ross and wife. At 10 o'clock
the secretary and bride entered the parlor
with Joined hands Inc ceremony was
brief and original. lasting only two minutes.
Congratulations followed. The bride was
dressed IN a steele gray silk, ornaments Of
diamonds. The secretary and bride spent
the evening Eith the governor, they will 90 to
Oxford, Miss, 70 visit reialives Of the secre-
taFy. Then they go 70 Washington.
The E.raniilIeT published a letter from the
alleged authors OF the dynamite explosion
On the cable road, on Ninth street. The let
is written in red ink, on coarse, brick col
ored paper. 1t is signed august HOwlitz."
The letter states that the parties response
bic for the explosion are members of a so
eiety and powerful organization which had
its birth in Chicago directly after the Hay
market riot. The letter further states that
the dynamiters have no connection with the
carmen's union, and that the latteris entire
~ ignorant Of who the dynHmitsrs are. The
eplstls concludes as follows: ave have a
prozramme laid out for a series of dynamite
explosions, ana shall 90 forward in earnest
II the roads persist IN refusing the carmen
their Just rights"
In the secret session Of the senate the
Mexican recl prOc-ty treaty, which has long
been waiting action by the house of repre-
EEuEarlWGa
into effect, was brought up on a proposition
from the committee On foreign affairs to
extend the time within which the required
action might be taken The prop sItlOu
gave rise 70 a debate of an hour upon the
subject Of reciprocity treaties in general and |
To some extent the question Of tariff reform
became involved in the talk. The PROPOSE |
ton, which was IN the nature of a protocol
extending the time IN which congressional
action must be taken to May, 1888, was
brought TO a vote and carried. This Is the
second extension of time IN connection with
this treaty.
Commissioner John n. Abbott. of the
y IuthWestern Passenger association, has
given his rulings on three unsettled ques-
tons affecting the agreement entered INTO
by the roads forming the association No
vember !, 1856. Inc commissioner rules,
with regard TO the usual coupons of uneI-
pired commercial thousand NILE tickets,
that they may be accepted at the rate of two
cents per mllela part payment for new COM
tickets are purchased by and for use in the
service Of the passenger purchasing the orig
inal ticket.
A bundle Of bloody clothing was found in
Lexington, Mass, and caused much snr-
prise. The next day, Farmer Brooks discover
ed near the place the head of man which
had been severed from the body and near it
other portions OF body covered by snow.
The head was gashed and distorted by a ter
rible wound. Il hal evidently been chop
ped from the body with dull ak. About a
mile from where the head and arm were
found, the investigators discovered in a
deep gully the multilated trunk. Il was
naked. The body Il thought to be that of
hard working man Near the head was
found Boston evening Record dated De-
cember %, and smeared With blood which
indicates that the murder was committed on
or later than that date.
The annual meeting Of district assembly
Nc -, Knights Of Labor, embracing every
town tonchsd by main line or branches
Of the Union Pacific railway, which has been
In session IN Denver, Col, passed resolu-
tons endorsing every action taken by Grand
Master Powderly in the settlement of the
Southwestern and Chicago strikes, as we'll as
his views regarding trades unions. The con
VentiOn pledges its members to stand by
Mr.. Powderly IN his work, and pronOunces
HIM one OF the greatest Statesmen of the
age.
A violent explosion took place at the
North Chicago gas works, near the corner
of Halstead and Division streets. 1t was
attended by the rushing of a great sheet OF
flame into the middle of the building. The
explosion had occurred in the sewer that
carries OF the refuse matter from the oil
oupOlas, and IN some way the gas became
ignited. The flames followed the sewer,
and ran into the river, the surface Of which
for a distance OF 200 yards was soon a mass
Of flames, which latter ignited the large
lake sheds on the bank. Two hre alarms
were turned on, and the ME was under con
troll in hair an hour. There were a dozen
men at work IN the works when the ex-
plosion occurred and all of them were
thrown down, some b-ing hurled several
feet -Four Of them were severely injured.
The Stta says that the Knights of Labor in
New YorE City say the reported decision of
district assembly No. "a, Oh .cagO, in taking
back all the hard things said of POWderly,
will make no difference in the demand for a
special session of the general assembly. The
evils which are to be remedied at a special
session are still in the order. They say IN
less the special session is held the order will
split in two before October.
The polar wave which has prevailed in
Minnesota. extended over the entire north
vest. At St. Cloud and Akin, Mimi, the
Thermometer was reported as registering GO
degrees below; at Albert Lea, 40; at Bis
marck, OAK, 49; a. Miles City, Montana,
sc below, and much anxiety is expressed re-
Rarding the catt-e and sheep
A horrible death took place in Wabash,
lnd- The wife OF John Bahler, an emplOye
OF the Cincinnati Wabash and Michigan
railway, left her 5-year-old-boy to watch an
infant while she went into the cellar. On
returning, the boy vas wrapped in sheet Of
IRE, having ventared too near the stove.
Mrs Bahler Eas also burned In trying TO
save her child.